Nethack keybord movement not working

nethack

I press 'y' and it says unknown command. No numeric keypad here, and I need to move diagonally. Is there an option to turn the normal nethack keyboard on?

Best Answer

In your nethack options file (its location depends on the system), you should set the number_pad option to 0 to use the keys hjklyubn for movement. The line to set this option is

OPTIONS=number_pad:0